In this art installation, silence is the plan, but maybe not the point. “In such a deadened room, a body bursts with life, spilling it out through every sense. I felt enraptured and paralyzed, as if I were a disembodied mind seared in the void, listening to a recording of silence played at top volume.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The Motion Picture Academy Has A New ‘O.J. Rule’ That May Change How The Oscars Deal With Documentaries
You could call it “the O.J. rule” after this year’s winner, or you could think of it as “the Netflix rule” – in other words, if something is intended primarily for streaming consumption, that makes it ineligible for the Oscar documentary prize.
Is This Florida Monument To Chinese Literature Ambitious Or Foolish?
Whoa: “Elling O. Eide decided to bring the world of Sinology to Sarasota. Already a voracious collector, he doubled down on his passion, buying entire collections of academic journals and books. His research specialty had been China’s most famous poet, Li Po, who lived during the Tang dynasty of the seventh to 10th centuries, often called China’s greatest. That dynasty became his focus. He amassed 75,000 volumes, including 50,000 in Chinese.”
The Typewriter Orchestra Is A Real Thing, Making Real Music
The Boston Typewriter orchestra doesn’t travel, but (ironically?) its music is all too available online.
Writing ‘Homeland’ During The First Months Of The Trump Presidency
It wasn’t pretty, says one of the showrunners. Plots had to change quickly to keep up, or even partially keep up, with the changing times: “What began to happen in real life felt in some ways so much more dramatic and so much more terrifying than what we were dramatizing on television.”
It’s The Best Of Times, But About To Subside Back To The Worst Of Times, For Craft Beer
You can blame mergers and a weirdly laissez-faire U.S. Department of Justice. “This unwillingness to use effective antitrust enforcement to protect American economic interests is in stark contrast to how the rest of the world operates.”
Is It Ethical To Make Art Out Of Suicide?
The new podcast “S-Town” and the new Netflix series – named after a popular YA book – “13 Reasons Why” raise a lot of questions. One deals with them well, and ethically, and the other? Not even close.
Bach’s St. John Passion – And All Other Classical Music – Belongs On The Stage, Not Just On A Recording
There are several dangers in listening to classical music only in recordings. But the worst is that “we are in danger of losing touch with the greatest strength of classical music – its liveness. The unrepeatable, unpredictable nature of great music performed in the moment for that moment only.”
British Actor Tim Pigott-Smith Has Died At Age 70, Just As He Finished Work On Perhaps His Best Role Yet
Pigott-Smith is well known for being a constant hard worker both on stage and on screen. “Just before his death, he finished work on a television adaptation of the critically acclaimed play King Charles III, in which he plays the title role of a stubborn King Charles, rebelling against the government in the wake of his mother’s death. His performance in the play’s run in London and New York won him nominations for Olivier and Tony awards.”
No, Marvel, Your Numbers Aren’t Dropping Because Of Men And Women Who ‘Hate Political Correctness’
The rumor got started, and it was a convenient story for people living in a U.S. where Trump is president. “It didn’t much matter that only two of the retailers who attended the summit expressed misgivings about books featuring women and people of color, while the rest maintained that those books were selling well in their shops. The damage was done.”